Special Procedure Rooms: Will TAVR Shift to the Catheterization Laboratory?

from DOTmed.com

Special procedure rooms are coming into their own, driven by both innovation and the need to justify costs that has come to be a dominant trend driving change in the healthcare landscape. For example, transcatheter aortic-valve replacement is generally done in a hybrid operating room, but the conventional wisdom is that the open-heart surgery alternative will eventually migrate into the cardiac catheterization laboratory, resulting in a substantial cost savings. more